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'The Vampire Diaries' Season 7 Trailer: Who Is Taking Over Mystic Falls?

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As Lily (Annie Wersching) and the Heretics start their reign, chaos breaks out as Damon (Ian Somerhalder) and Stefan (Paul Wesley) have to figure out how to fight back.

Change is coming to The Vampire Diaries.

With the Heretics in town -- and Lily Salvatore (Annie Wersching) up to no good -- Mystic Falls is in a good deal of trouble when the show returns for its seventh season.

As the new trailer for the upcoming season teases, the residents of Mystic Falls have brokered a deal with the Heretics, but none of the good guys are thrilled about it. "Are we making a huge mistake handing over our home town to a bunch of supernatural terrorists?" asks Caroline (Candice Accola).

And the Salvatore brothers aren't excited about what their mother is doing, either. Damon (Ian Somerhalder) notes their mother is a "lunatic" and Stefan (Paul Wesley) sets out to learn how to make a bomb.

"Tonally, it's a little grim at first, because you got a little glimpse of that town [in the flash-forward]," The Vampire Diaries showrunner Caroline Driestold The Hollywood Reporter about the upcoming season. "It doesn't necessarily start that way, but that vibe will be [present] in the show."